NEW DELHI, Feb 20: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday has directed the Privileges Committee of the upper house to investigate the conduct of 12 opposition MPs for disorderly conduct during the first half of the budget session of Parliament.
The Rajya Sabha secretariat in a bulletin listed out the names of Congress members — Syed Nasir Hussain, Shaktisinh Gohil, Imran Pratapgarhi, L Hanumanthaiah, Kumar Ketkar Jebi Mather, Ranjeet Ranjan, Phulo Devi Netam and Naranbhai J. Rathwa and Aam Aadmi Party MPs Sanjay Singh, Sandeep Kumar Pathak and Sushil Kumar Gupta who will be investigated.
As per the bulletin the members “violated rules and etiquette” of Rajya Sabha by repeatedly entering the well of the council, shouting slogans, persistently and wilfully obstructing the proceedings of the council compelling the Chair to repeatedly adjourn the sitting.
In another bulletin the secretariat also informed that AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s conduct will also be investigated for “repeated submission of identical notices under Rule 267.” Rule 267 is used by the members to raise issues of national importance suspending the business of the day. Several opposition members citing this rule had repeatedly demanded a debate on the Adani-Hindenburg episode, but each day, Chairman Mr. Dhankhar rejected their demands.
(Manas Dasgupta)
